Samsung and AMD Reinforce Strategic Collaboration to Advance AI-Powered Network Innovations for Commercial Deployments

From RAN to Core, the companies' extensive joint work brings greater flexibility by moving from verification to real-world deployment

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., today announced new breakthroughs with AMD across Samsung’s network portfolio – including 5G Core, virtualised RAN (vRAN) and private networks. This achievement marks a key milestone for both companies that move forward from the joint verification stage to commercial deployments, reinforcing the level of the strategic collaboration for software and AI-driven network innovation.

Recently, Samsung was selected by Videotron to deploy its 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) and 4G LTE Core gateway solutions, powered by AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series CPUs. Through this project, Samsung is expanding its presence across Canada and beyond, accelerating its cloud-native AI core footprint while retaining operator confidence in Samsung’s proven partner ecosystem and network solutions.

At MWC 2026, Samsung will demonstrate its AI-RAN breakthrough developments by leveraging its AI-powered vRAN with AMD EPYC processors. Following last year’s validation milestone, both companies will introduce the successful results of multi-cell testing conducted at Samsung’s R&D Lab, enabling scalable deployments and greater processor flexibility within software-based network environments.

This achievement highlights Samsung’s ability and commitment to reach commercial-grade, AI-powered vRAN performance using a fully virtualised software stack on the latest AMD CPU without additional accelerators. It underscores Samsung’s ongoing shift toward software-driven architectures designed to reduce hardware dependency and provide operators with greater choice and adaptability.

“Samsung’s accomplishment with AMD emphasizes what’s possible when AI-native, open and virtualised architectures meet advanced compute innovations,” said Keunchul Hwang, Executive Vice President and Head of Technology Strategy Group, Networks Business at Samsung Electronics. “We’re making headway to help operators fully scale AI-native networks today with commercial-grade performance and greater infrastructure optionality, ensuring their networks are ready to evolve with emerging technologies and use cases.”

“AMD EPYC CPUs are built to handle the intensive compute requirements of modern telecommunications infrastructure,” said Derek Dicker, corporate vice president, Enterprise Business Group. “Our latest multi-cell vRAN testing with Samsung demonstrates how our latest generation EPYC processors deliver the performance, efficiency and scalability that network operators and enterprises need to build next-generation networks that are ready for AI, automation and future innovations.”

The companies have also expanded their joint efforts for AI-driven enterprise solutions. At MWC, Samsung will present its Network in a Server (NIS)— a fully virtualised next-generation, Edge-AI solution powered by AMD’s CPU. This solution helps operators easily incorporate AI into their networks, reduce operational complexity and unlock new opportunities. Samsung will demonstrate various AI on RAN use cases using NIS verified in real-world environments with a major Japanese operator. These use cases span video analysis, sensor and radar detection services based on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) technology, and hyperconnectivity for next-generation devices.

Samsung is committed to embracing a robust, technology forward ecosystem of chipset partners, providing operators with diverse optionality to accelerate a flexible, AI-powered and cloud-native network evolution.

Samsung Networks has pioneered the successful delivery of 5G end-to-end solutions, including chipsets, radios and cores. Through ongoing research and development, Samsung drives the industry to advance 5G networks with its market-leading product portfolio, from purpose-built RAN, virtualized RAN, Open RAN, AI-RAN, Cloud-native AI core to private network solutions and AI-powered automation tools and applications. The company currently provides innovative network solutions to mobile operators that deliver boundless connectivity to hundreds of millions of users worldwide.